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/mɔʁɡ/
Translation
morgue, mortuary
Word origin
An older French word for a haughty stare, then for the room in a prison where new arrivals were stared at, and finally for the place where unidentified bodies were viewed.
- Origin
- French
- Root
- morgue
- English cognates
- morgue
Grammar
Examples
transporté .
The body was taken to the morgue.
l'.
He works nights at the hospital morgue.
l' .
The police rang her to come to the morgue.
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Two doctors were waiting outside the morgue.
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She came out of the morgue in tears.
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